Together! - Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Design Museum Charles-Eames-Straße 2 Weil am Rhein/Basel www.design-museum.de

PRESS CONFERENCE 1 June 2017, 2 pm

OPENING 2 June 2017, 6 pm

Opening Talk with Ilka and Andreas Ruby, Daniel Niggli, Angelika Fitz, and Kieran Long

PRESS DOWNLOADS www.design-museum.de/press_images

Together! The New Architecture of the Collective 03.06. – 10.09.2017 Housing is scarce – that much has become evident in the last few years. As real estate prices in big cities continue to skyrocket, conventional ideas of housing development prove unable to meet demands. The reaction to these challenges has been a silent revolution in contemporary architecture – towards collective building and living. Using models, films, and walk-in displays, the exhibition »Together! The New Architecture of the Collective« addresses this global phenomenon by presenting a broad array of collective building and living projects from Europe, Asia, and the United States. An overview of historical precedents for the current wave of collectives demonstrates that the idea of collectivity has been a recurring theme in the history of architecture, from the reformist ideas of the nineteenth century to the hippies and squatters of the twentieth who touted the slogan »Make love, not lofts«. The exhibition begins with a look at the history of social housing ideals that mostly originated in a protest against the existing conditions. The presentation stresses this and refers to the urgency of the topic: a series of films shows examples of social unrest triggered by housing shortages. Protest placards provide information about historical attempts to respond to these challenges. These include the Phalanstères invented by Charles Fourier (1772–1837), the late-nineteenth-century Monte Verità colony in the Swiss part of the Ticino, the housing cooperatives of the 1920s, the autonomous community of Christiania in Copenhagen, and the Karthago cooperative in Zurich. Many of these ideas were closely related to the social shifts of their day; it is therefore no surprise that they are once more gaining currency as more and more people live outside the conventional nuclear family – be it as couples, single parents, singles, or elderly people living alone. For many, the idea of collective living offers an affordable remedy to urban isolation.

The exhibition’s second section uses 21 large-scale models of contemporary housing experiments to create a fictitious city for visitors to explore. In reality these projects by architects including einszueins architektur, Heide & von Beckerath, Michael Maltzan Architecture, ON design partners, pool Architekten, and Ryue Nishizawa may be found in cities as diverse as Berlin, Zurich, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Vienna. A closer look at the models reveals that the innovative thrust of this new collective architecture also extends to fundamental principles such as volume, façade, and materials: the specific challenges and limited resources confronting the architects give rise to a unique aesthetic. The context of the imaginary city moreover shows that many of these projects blur the boundaries between living space and urban space, between private and public sphere. This becomes clear in the third section, where a full-scale model of what is known as a »cluster apartment« enables visitors to enter and experience the communal and private spaces that characterise this housing type. Background information – including floor plans – sheds light on the many forms that new collective lifestyles can take. The installation features a series of photographs by Daniel Burchard made especially for the exhibition. His photographic essays provide an insider’s look at eight projects from a variety of countries, documenting scenes from everyday life in the new collectives. This shows that the new collectives emerge as social laboratories not least because the digitalisation gives rise to new possibilities of life/work organisation. How does the new architecture of the collective work in economic terms, which new challenges come with it, and how can innovative housing forms actually be realised? Answers to these questions are provided in case studies of the Sargfabrik in Vienna, Zwicky-Süd in Zurich, La Borda in Barcelona, R50 in Berlin, and the Apartments with a Small Restaurant in Tokyo. The section’s workspace setting incidentally highlights the new funding options arising from the close integration of public and private functions in many of these projects. At the Kalkbreite in Zurich, for example, approximately half the floor area is reserved for commercial and other non-residential uses including a cinema, a packaging-free supermarket, three restaurants and cafés, health consultancies, various offices, and a publicly accessible courtyard with a playground. Projects like Kalkbreite show that non-profit collective housing experiments can thrive within, and actually transform, the commercially driven real-estate market for the better. Grassroots movements such as Occupy have had a dramatic impact on the political landscape, just as the »sharing economy« is revolutionising the very idea of property ownership. This exhibition manifests how these ideas are changing the way in which inhabitants and architects together conceive new forms of living which, beyond meeting individual needs, provide an answer to a central question of our time: how do we want to live together in the future? #VDMtogether Please share your photos and impressions of the exhibition using the hashtags #VDMtogether and #vitradesignmuseum on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Participating architects Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter (DK), CASA Architecten und Vrijburcht Stichting (NL), ifau und Jesko Fezer/Heide von Beckerath (DE), Hütten und Paläste Architekten (DE), Naruse Inokuma Architects (JP), Naka Architects’ Studio (JP), Studio mnm (JP), Osamu Nishida and Erika Nakagawa (JP), Ryue Nishizawa (JP), ON design partners (JP), Jinhee Park, SsD (KR), pool Architektur ZT (AT), gaupenraub +/(AT), einszueins architektur (AT), Buol & Zünd (CH), Beat Rothen Architektur (CH), Müller Sigrist Architekten (CH), pool Architekten (CH), Enzmann Fischer und Partner (CH), Schneider Studer Primas (CH), Lacol Cooperativa d’Arquitectes (ES), BKK-2 (AT), Silvia Carpaneto + fatkoehl architekten + BARarchitekten with Die Zusammenarbeiter (DE), Michael Maltzan Architecture (USA), Duplex Architekten (CH), Santiago Cirugeda of Recetas Urbanas (ES), all(zone) (TH).

Exhibition Catalogue

Together! The New Architecture of the Collective Editors: Mateo Kries, Ilka Ruby, Andreas Ruby, Mathias Müller, Daniel Niggli Softcover 23 x 30,2 cm, 352 pages Approx. 443 mainly colour illustrations ISBN: 978-3-945852-14-9 German retail price: 49,90€

»Together! The New Architecture of the Collective« presents an overview of contemporary collective housing projects from contexts as different as Europe, Asia, and the United States. The exhibition catalogue traces the history of this recent collective turn in housing back to the utopian residential developments of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the first radical housing cooperative projects of the 1920s. It tells the story of the various protest movements against housing shortages and real estate speculation in many urban centres since the 1960s. A series of visual essays by photographer Daniel Burchard gives the reader an introduction to everyday domestic life of eight contemporary housing projects in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan. Critical essays by Andreas Hofer, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Anna Puigjaner, Robert Temel, Yuma Shinohara, and the editors of this book analyze the search for the collective as the defining force in the development of housing from the beginnings of modernism until today. The catalogue has been designed by the studio Something Fantastic from Berlin.

TALKS / DISCUSSIONS / WORKSHOPS

Together! How do we want to live? Andreas Ruby, Angelika Fitz, Kieran Long and Daniel Niggli /EM2N Architekten, OPENING TALK (EN) | 2 June 2017 6 pm, Buckminster Fuller Dome What exactly does communal living and building mean? How did this form of coexistence take shape and what are innovative examples? The exhibition opens with a discussion featuring the exhibition curators --- Ilka and Andreas Ruby of Ruby Press and Daniel Niggli of the architecture studio EM2N --- as well as Angelika Fitz, director of the Architekturzentrum Vienna and Kieran Long, director of (ArkDes) Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design. Free admission, registration: [email protected] Pier Vittorio Aureli --- Public or Private? TALK (EN) | 29 June 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum Collective architecture brings the public realm into the domestic sphere --- and considers residential spaces a public good. The renowned architect Pier Vittorio Aureli discusses with Andreas Ruby, curator of the exhibition. The conversation will be presented by Anh-Linh Ngo, editor of the magazine ARCH+. It is part of the series ARCH+ Features, which is initiated by Siedle. Free admission Pascal Mory --- The Colours of Community TALK (EN) | 6 July 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum What is the significance of color in architecture? For Le Corbusier this was a lifelong preoccupation. His groundbreaking concept for collective living was implemented in multiple cities. In this talk, Pascal Mory, architect and contributor to the refurbishment of the »Unité d’Habitation«, addresses the community-building role of color that many architects employ to this day. Free admission Anna Puigjaner --- Kitchenless City TALK (EN) | 27 July 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum The current housing crisis can be addressed using historic examples --- suggests Spanish architect Anna Puigjaner. Kitchens and gardens can be collectively used by many inhabitants. Her conviction has been realized in her proposal »Kitchenless City: Architectural Systems for Social Welfare«. Currently, Puigjaner is researching examples of collective living in Brazil, Sweden, Russia and Korea to derive lessons and possible solutions for future domestic architecture. In her talk, she will share these findings. Free admission Marco Clausen --- The Green City TALK (DE) | 31 August 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum Urban gardens are green islands that bring life to vacant lots and former industrial sites. The trained historian Marco Clausen is co-founder of the Prinzessinnengärten (Princess Gardens) and Nachbarschaftsakademie (Neighbourhood Academy) in Berlin. Situated on 6000 square metres in the

Kreuzberg district of Berlin, the pioneering project has attracted international attention since its founding in 2009. In this talk, Clausen shares his insights and discusses the potential of urban gardens for the social cohesion and sustainable future development of cities. Free admission

Steff Fischer --- From »Zurich is burning« to »Zurich is booming« TALK (DE) | 7 September 2017 6:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum In the 1980s, Steff Fischer was a squatter and part of the youth movement in Zurich. Today, he is an important player in the real estate market. He initiates alternative housing projects and creative strategies for urban development. Fischer speaks about the transformation of office buildings into residential real estate or the new usage of temporarily vacant spaces as well as projects like the »Basislager«, a settlement of repurposed containers for creatives. Free admission

WORKSHOPS Gardens as Communities --- Family Workshop SPECIAL WORKSHOP (DE) | 17 June 2017 10 am – 4 pm, Vitra Design Museum Gardening in big cities has become increasingly popular --- especially if the garden is created and tended by an entire neighborhood. This workshop allows family members of all ages to help design the area in front of the museum as an outdoor extension of the exhibition. Registration: [email protected], free admission Together: The Big Picnic! SPECIAL (DE) | 2 September 2017 10 am – 2 pm, Vitra Design Museum Because hardly anything creates a sense of connection like a shared meal, the area outside the Vitra Design Museum will be turned into a communal picnic site. Food brought by guests will be supplemented on site with a range of fresh summery treats. The non-profit association Urban Agriculture Basel will also host a stand where young and old can learn more about the organic cultivation of edible crops in urban spaces. In addition, a workshop gives kids the opportunity to decorate their own clay pots for small balcony gardens. Free admission

SPECIAL GUIDED TOURS Let’s live together! CHILDREN’S TOUR (DE) | 11 June, 9 July, 6 August, 3 September 2017 2:30 pm, Vitra Design Museum In most cases, people live alone in an apartment or share a house as a family. Does it have to be like that? In this guided tour of the exhibition »Together! The New Architecture of the Collective« we get

acquainted with new forms of communal living and contemplate how we will likely live together in the future. After the tour, we will create our own futuristic cities and homes. For children aged 6 to 12, € 7 per child, registration: [email protected] Curator’s Tour --- »Together!« WEDNESDAY MATINEE (DE) | 23 August 2017 10 am, Vitra Design Museum As a representative of the curatorial team, the architect Michaela Stolcova guides visitors through the exhibition and talks about new forms of communal living and building. She presents highly innovative examples of contemporary architecture as well as the underlying social and economic ideals. € 10 per person

Fact Sheet Title:

Together! The New Architecture of the Collective

Curators:

Ilka and Andreas Ruby; Daniel Niggli, Mathias Müller (EM2N)

Location:

Vitra Design Museum Charles-Eames-Straße 2 79576 Weil am Rhein

Duration:

3 June – 10 September 2017

Opening:

2 June 2017, 6 pm

Opening Hours:

daily, 10 am – 6 pm

Further Information:

www.design-museum.de T +49.7621.702.3200 E [email protected]

Hashtags:

#VDMtogether #vitradesignmuseum

Press Images:

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Image Overview Together! The New Architecture of the Collective 03.06. – 10.09.2017 Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

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»Together! The New Architecture of the Collective«

Community pool in the housing project Hardturmstrasse, Kraftwerk1, Zurich Stücheli Architekten mit Bünzli Courvoisier, Zurich, 2001 © Andreas Hofer

Open air dinner, Siedlung Heizenholz, Kraftwerk1, Zurich Adrian Streich Architekten, Zurich, 2012 © Katrin Simonett/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017

© Vitra Design Museum, 2017 Designed by Something Fantastic, Berlin

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Moryama House, Tokyo

Moriyama House, Tokyo

Moriyama House, Tokyo.

Office of Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, 2005 © Edmund Sumner/VIEW

Office of Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, 2005 © Dean Kaufman

Office of Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, 2005 © Dean Kaufman

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LT Josai, Nagoya

LT Josai, Nagoya Naruse Inokuma Architects, Tokyo, 2013 © Masao Nishikawa

LT Josai, Nagoya, 2013 Naruse Inokuma Architects, Tokyo © Masao Nishikawa

Naruse Inokuma Architects, Tokyo, 2013 © Masao Nishikawa

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LT Josai, Nagoya Photo: Daniel Burchard

House for Seven People, Tokyo studio mnm, Tokyo, 2013 © Sadao Hotta

Yokohama Apartment, Yokohama, 2009

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Apartments with a Small Restaurant, Tokyo, 2014 Naka Architects’ Studio © Naka Architects’ Studio

Songpa Micro-Housing, Seoul, 2014 Jinhee Park/SsD, New York/Seoul. © SsD

Wohnprojekt Wien einszueins architektur, 2013 Photo: Hertha Hurnaus

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Courtyard of Sargfabrik, Wien

Swimming pool in the basement of Sargfabrik, Wien BKK-2, Vienna, 1992–96 © Hertha Hurnaus

Community kitchen at Sargfabrik, Wien BKK-2, Vienna, 1992–96 © Hertha Hurnaus

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Star Apartments, Los Angeles Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles, 2014 © Gabor Ekecs

Library, Cooperative Kalkbreite, Zurich, 2014 Müller Sigrist Architekten © Müller Sigrist Architekten Photo: Martin Stollenwerk

Justus van Effencomplex, Rotterdam, 1924 Michiel Brinkman, Rotterdam

BKK-2, Vienna, 1992–96 © Stadt Wien MA 18 / R. Christanell

Osamu Nishida + Erika Nakagawa Tokyo. © Koichi Torimura

© Raimund McClain

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Mockup of the project Zollhaus, Zurich, 2015 Enzmann Fischer Partner AG © Enzmann Fischer Partner AG

Visualization of the project Zollhaus, Zurich Enzmann Fischer Partner AG, Zurich, 2015 © Enzmann Fischer Partner AG

Visualization of the project Zollhaus, Zurich Enzmann Fischer Partner AG, Zurich, 2015 © Enzmann Fischer Partner AG

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Haus J, Genossenschaft mehr als wohnen, Zurich pool Architekten, Zurich, 2014 © Niklaus Spoerri

Community space at Haus J, Genossenschaft mehr als wohnen, Zurich, 2014. pool Architekten, Zurich Photo: Niklaus Spoerri

Genossenschaft mehr als Wohnen, Zurich Photo: Daniel Burchard

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Spreefeld Berlin zusammenarbeiter / carpaneto / fat koehl / bar architekten, berlin  Photo: DaKa

Spreefeld Berlin zusammenarbeiter / carpaneto / fat koehl / bar architekten, berlin  Photo: Ute Zscharnt

Spreefeld Berlin zusammenarbeiter / carpaneto / fat koehl / bar architekten, berlin  Photo: Ute Zscharnt

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The colony’s founder and guests practise eurythmics Monte Verità, Ascona (CH), nach 1904 Courtesy Fondazione Monte Verità.

Kommune 1, 1968 © Werner Bokelberg

Autonomous youth center/Autonomes Jugendzentrum (AJZ), Zurich, 1980–82 © KEYSTONE

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Familistère de Guise, schoolchildren in the courtyard of the central building, 1890 © Collection Familistère de Guise

Le Corbusier, Unité d‘Habitation © Fondation Le Corbusier/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017

Wohnpark Alterlaa, Wien, 1973-85 Architect: Harry Glück et al. © Simon van Hal

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Visualisierung des Projekts Agora Wohnen, Berlin, 2015 Architects: Hütten und Paläste © Frank Schönert + Nanni Grau/Hütten und Paläste

A »butterfly plan« with different floor plans of the Genossenschaft Kalkbreite, Zurich © Müller Sigrist Architekten

Floor plan of a cluster flat with inhabitants, Haus A, Genossenschaft mehr als wohnen, Zurich, 2015 Architects: Duplex Architekten © Duplex Architekten

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Moriyama House, Tokyo © Office of Ryue Nishizawa

Model of a collective city, 2017 Photo: Hannes Henz Architekturfotograf

Model of a collective city, 2017 Photo: Hannes Henz Architekturfotograf

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